South African captain Graeme Smith said on Tuesday that he wants more use of video replays in Test cricket after Pakistan recorded an eight-wicket victory in the first Test against the Proteas. ”I think television has got to play a role somewhere,” Smith told reporters.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson returns to his hometown of Glasgow to face his former club Rangers and former protégé Alex McLeish in a Champions League ”Battle of Britain”. It’s the first time in Ferguson’s 17-year career at Man United that he’s going back for a competitive match to the club where he used to play.

Set 220 to win in 56 overs at 3,9 an over, the Border Bears beat the Highveld Strikers by seven wickets with 2,1 overs to spare in their SuperSport match at Mercedes-Benz Park on Monday in an absolutely thrilling finish. The hero for Border was the diminutive opening batsman, man of the match Mark Bruyns.

Rima Wakarua kicked four penalties and a conversion, and Canadian counterpart Jared Barker missed four of his seven as Italy scored a 19-14 victory on Tuesday to set up a likely World Cup showdown with Wales. The two teams matched each other with one try each.

A major privatisation and black economic empowerment deal has suffered a blow as a result of this week’s Constitutional Court ruling that the Richtersveld community has a legitimate claim to the land where a government-owned company, Alexkor, was prospecting for diamonds.

South Africa cannot afford to stall land reform and the government is committed to meeting its 2015 deadline of redistributing a third of white-owned commercial agricultural land to black owners, said Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza at AgriSA’s annual congress in Bloemfontein two weeks ago.

The government has political power, but not enough influence on the mechanisms of the state to turn them into real tools of social and economic development. This is a crucial finding of the government’s 10-year review of the first decade of freedom released on Thursday.